Canadian mezzo-soprano Ellita Gagner, has been praised for having a “gorgeous, warm tone and winning gamine personality” (Gianmarco Segato, La Scena Musicale). She has been seen in the roles of Cendrillon (Cendrillon), L’Enfant (L’Enfant et les Sortileges), Lysistrata (Lysistrata), Hansel (Hansel and Gretel), Dorabella (Così fan tutte), Announcer (Gallantry, UoT Opera), Peep Bo (The Mikado), Tisbe (La Cenerentola), and Iphigenia (Disobedience). She’s sung with Opera Nova Scotia, the Brott Festival, London Community Orchestra, Uxbridge Messiah Singers and Orchestra, GoodMess Opera, and Can of Soup Collective. She has workshopped the role of Gabby for the Royal Swedish Opera’s Melancholia by Mikael Karlsson and librettist Royce Vavrek, and Mimi in scenes from Indians on Vacation by Ian Cusson and Royce Vavrek. Ellita was a young artist with Manitoba Opera in the 2022 DEAP program where she created the short film, Love Songs to the Piano.
Ellita holds degrees from the University of Western Ontario and the University of Toronto. In August 2024, she was an Equilibrium Young Artist at the Lunenburg Academy of Music Performance (LAMP). She currently studies with Adrianne Pieczonka and Dr. Lorna MacDonald. The 24-25 season will see her return to Uxbridge as the Alto soloist in their Messiah, as a Rebanks Fellow at the Glenn Gould School, a vocal fellow at the Castleton Festival and a finalist in the Opéra de Montréal National Auditions.
EQ CONCERTS 2024/25
LAMP Residency
August 2024